經典寓言故事：城門失火

寓言故事是文學體裁的一種。含有諷喻或明顯教訓意義的故事。它的結構簡短，多用借喻手法，使富有教訓意義的主題或深刻的道理在簡單的故事中體現。下面本站小編爲大家帶來經典寓言故事：城門失火，歡迎大家閱讀!

Many many years ago, in the State of Song, there was a city gate. Outside the gate was a moat with fishes that lived a quiet and happy life there.

One day the tower above the city gate caught fire and the people of the city were alarmed. Even the fishes in the moat could hear the gone.

"What's the noise about?" the fishes wondered. "I must go and find out," said one curious black carp. When he saw the tower on fire, he hurried back to tell his mates. "Swim all you could! Swim all you could! Swim for life!" He cried to his fellow-fishes. "The city gate is burning!"

So all the fishes except the carps started to swim away. One arrogant carp even laughed at the other fishes. "Don't laugh," said the kind black carp. "You really ought to swim away, too, in good time."

"Why should I?" asked the arrogant carp. "It's only their city gate on fire, what's it got to do with me in the water?" The fire spread very fast and the firemen had used up all the water in the city. But it was still burning. So they fetched waster from the moat.

At long last, the fire was put out, but the moat had also gone dry, leaving a few sorry carps in theirdying struggle. This tale likens the city gate fire to disasters that do not seem to concern us but that can spread and involve even the innocent.

很久很久以前，宋國有一座城池。城外有一條河，河中的魚羣生活的十分安定愉快。

有一天，城樓失火了，火警的鐘聲穿到了水中。

“爲什麼這麼吵鬧呢?”一條魚問道，“我們得去看看!”好奇的青魚已經先游去去查看了，當它看到城樓失火時，他急忙回來告訴他的同伴，“着火了，城樓失火了，快點叫他們逃命吧!”

所有的魚都逃命去了，只有一條鯉魚在嘲笑他們。青魚對他說：“還不快逃命，還在這裏笑什麼?”

“我爲什麼要逃，城樓失火了又不會蔓延到水中，我爲什麼要走呢?”鯉魚回答。城中的水很快就用完了，火還沒有撲滅，於是，人們都來護城河中取水救火。

火終於撲滅了，可是河也乾涸了，只餘下幾條可憐的鯉魚在河牀上作垂死的掙扎。城門失火比喻因牽連而受禍害或損失。